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■*"" THE TRUTH ABOUT 
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT 

(PROPHETESS) 

TOGETHER WITH 

A CHALLENGE 

TO THE 

BISHOPS 

to support her writings if they be true, to "banish" 
them if they be false. 

BY 

MRS. RACHEL J. FOX 



A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND 

AUTHOR OF 

THE MYSTERY OF JOANNA SOUTHCOTT 

AND 

REVELATION ON REVELATION 



"Despise not prophesvings" "Blessed is he that readeth . . . the words of this prophecy" (the 
Revelation of things "which must shortly come to pass.") "When he ascended . . . and gave 
gifts unto men . . . he gave some, apostles, and some prop hets." "And God hath set some in 
the Church, first apostles, secondarily prophets." "To one is given by the Spirit . . . prophecy." 
"Greater is he that prophcskth than he that speaketh with tongues." "He that prophzsieth speak - 
eth unto men to edification and exhortation and comfort (and) edifieth the Church." "Your 
daughters shall prophesy. " "Covet to prophesy. " "The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy." 
"Think not that I am come to destroy the (office of) Prophets." 



"I have read Revelation on Revelation with great fascination and interest. I pray for it a wide 
circulation among the clergy and ministers of all denominations. Apart from any reference 
which the book makes to Joanna Southcott, the new light which it throws on some of the prop- 
hecies should prove of immense value to all seekers after Truth." — The Rev. Humphrey 
Davies. Grimsby. 



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THE Truth about Joanna Southcott is that there is not, and 
never has been, a man or woman in the world who is 
her equal in brains, courage, perseverance, unselfish- 
ness, honesty, purity, loyalty to her country and devotion to 
her God. That is the truth that will prevail over the con- 
temptible articles in Encyclopedias, from which newspaper 
writers still continue to get their information. 

For their enlightenment we will remark that Editors of En- 
cyclopedias are hastening to have totally new articles written 
about her, that at the National Portrait Gallery the word Im- 
postor has been removed from her picture and that her true 
designation of Prophetess has been substituted. Men on news- 
papers are comparatively excusable for following the encyclo- 
paedic lead, but what are we to say of the Bishops and many 
of the clergy of our day, who, for years, have had her magnif- 
icent writings sent to them, and are content to allow a devoted 
Communicant of their church, to remain under a stigma 
which they positively know to be false — the stigma that she, 
who risked her means of livelihood, lest she should miss a word 
that God gave to her for the salvation of this country in its 
coming trials, sold seals which were supposed to be passports 
into heaven? There has never been a greater falsehood in- 
vented since the Lord Christ was called "a deceiver !" Great is 
the Truth, and it shall prevail over newspaper men and over 
Bishops too. The writer is a literary critic who, moreover, has 
been engaged mostly in theological criticism and knows that 
to build upon the theology of to-day is to build upon the sand. 
One man will get a D.D. for a thesis upon a crucial theological 
doctrine looked at in one way and another may, as easily, get 
a B.D. on a thesis which takes precisely the opposite view. 
Take twenty clergymen and hardly two of them will agree on 
any important point. There is no adhesion, no continuity any- 
where. Three years aigo the writer commenced the study of 
the sixty-five volumes which Joanna received in the presence 
of two witnesses from the "still small voice," and found herein 
the Truth. The writer had studied nearly every phase of the- 
ology, had tested the mechanism of the Church in every detail, 
had known something was wanting and found it in these vol- 

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umes which are being- reprinted at the Clock House Press, Ash- 
ford, Middlesex, England ; also, San Diego, California, U. S. A., 
and prepare us for the fulfillment of the Promise to destroy 
evil. The Gospel and the fulfillment of the Gospel, are two 
different things. 

Briefly, Joanna, born in 1750, was of a good Devon family, 
which had had reverses. Like St. Paul who was a tent maker, St. 
Peter who was a fisherman, and the Christ who was a carpen- 
ter, she committed the crime of earning her own living, uphol- 
stery being her particular calling. She had previously been 
even in domestic service, which is an honorable and useful pro- 
fession. She was never a Methodist, but was called upon by 
God to try the Methodists with her wonderful Message and 
found thern "worse than the Church people." She would have 
been called a good churchwoman in our day, fasting in Lent, 
attending the Communion frequently, and her writings are en- 
tirely those of one who considered the Church of England her 
spiritual home. In 1792, at the age of forty-two, she first heard 
the Voice of^ the Lord, which came to her precisely as it came 
to Moses, Miriam, Deborah, Huldah, Elijah, David, Isaiah or 
Amos (who, by the way, was a herdman). Leaving her work 
to look after itself, she faithfully recorded every word she 
heard without addition thereto or subtraction therefrom. Com- 
ing events, revealed to her by the Spirit, were sealed and placed 
in the hands of various clergymen and came true to the mo- 
ment. (Particulars of all these facts are in the Writings; some 
two hundred prophecies were fulfilled) . For twenty-two years 
did this faithful woman obey the directing Voice and Hand of 
the Lord God, losing her living and her good name in His ser- 
vice, for, naturally, she brought upon herself the scorn of cler- 
gy and laity, was derided, burnt in effigy, lampooned and suf- 
fered the torture which any well-disposed woman would suf- 
fer under such conditions. But did she give in? No, you 
Englishmen who applaud pluck, she did not, and her sixty-five 
volumes are a monument to what Faith, of which Work was 
the outcome, can accomplish. Well, what was it all about you 
may say? It was to provide a shadow whereby when the sub- 
stance came, as she said it would, we might have some sort of 
an idea how to go on The Napoleonic war in her day was the 
shadow, we are now enjoying the substance, and, men and wo- 
men of England, the writer would inform you that, as every 
prophecy of Joanna's in regard to this war has come true so 
far, you have a pretty big thing in front of you and that the 
outlook, unless the Bishops open her sealed Prophecies and 
therein learn how we are going to escape disaster, is something 
prodigious! For this, be it known, is the last eighty-three 



4 THE TRUTH ABOUT JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 

years under the dominion of Evil, and the dethronization of 
Satan from his present position, as "prince of this world/' will 
be accompanied by phenomena which no one could stand who 
is not thoroughly acquainted with what is transpiring and is 
protected by knowledge and by faith. Joanna wrote for our 
benefit and, at least, it were better to search her writings and 
see what she can do to help us, than to wallow in cheap sneers 
about a thing of which all one knows is culled from an Ency- 
clopaedic article about to be re-written! A brief resume of 
the teaching which God gave her is as follows : — 

That Satan (who was the covering cherub described in Eze- 
kiel xxviii, 14) originated evil in his heart by his jealousy of 
the Son of God. By means of his powers and his lies he caused 
rebellion in Heaven and secured to his side a third part of the 
angels, who, when Michael and his hosts conquered them, fell 
with him to earth. How long he and his were on earth we are 
not told. God had declared to Satan He would create "from the 
dust" a better race than the fallen angels. Close on six thous- 
and years ago Adam — then in the perfect form of male and fe- 
male in one person, — appeared. Aware that Satan would tempt 
Man as he had tempted angels, God took from Adam his weak- 
er part, woman, because it was better that Satan should tempt 
one who, if she fell, would fall ignorantly and innocently. De- 
claring Woman should be Man's Helpmate, God placed them 
under a law, to break which was punishable. "In the day thou 
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Satan supposed this al- 
luded }td 'physical death and rejoiced in the thought that he 
would so easily get rid of man from the earth. He proceeded 
(with the express purpose of causing her to die) to tempt Eve, 
whom it is noteworthy Adam had left unprotected. Eve fell 
ignorantly through deception, she did not know that evil ex- 
isted, she did not sin. When all w T as discovered Adam threw 
the blame on God and on Woman, Eve threw it on Satan. Man 
did not die physically, far from this Adam lived nearly one 
thousand years, and it now transpires that the death God 
spoke of was death to the intimate and familiar knowledge of 
Him which they had enjoyed. It is from this death as well as 
from physical death we are about to be delivered. 1 The 15th 
verse of Genesis iii is our CHARTER of REDEMPTION, 
note it carefully. 2 Adam had blamed God and Woman, Eve had 
laid the blame on the right head. Very well, Christ would take 
the blame man cast on God and on Woman, and would shield 
the woman who has never blamed Him. This He did by com- 

1 "They shall all know Me from the least of them unto the greatest of them." 

2 "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; 
it shall bruise thy head and thou shall bruise his heel." — Genesis Hi, 15. (Isa. 44,5.) 



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ing in the Fourth Thousand Year or Fourth Day and permit- 
ting Satan to bruise His Heel — (it was Satan who entered into 
Judas and into the chief Priests). To this alone did Christ 
allude when He said, "It is finished." That piece of His per- 
sonal work was done, viz. : — the bruising of His Heel, but the 
rest had to come — the bruising of the deceiver's head. It is 
the talk about the "Finished work of Christ" that has confused 
us. His work will not be finished till He has come with ven- 
geance in His heart and has cast Satan and his hosts from off 
our earth. Here again Satan was foiled, for, in the text you 
will see that the last is put first and the first last. Foiled in 
having tempted only the ignorant, innocent half of Man, foiled 
in thinking "thou shalt surely die" meant physical death, foiled 
in thinking when Christ was crucified, as it was placed last "it 
was finished," what a Fool is Satan! So great a Fool that we 
are not permitted to call each other Fools ! To proceed — Christ 
returned to Heaven as Two Thousand Years, two more "Days," 
had to roll by of the Six Thousand Years or Six "Days" (a 
week) promised to Satan on earth. Each thousand years is a 
day to God (2nd Epistle St. Peter, iii, 8), and His week is six 
days or six thousand years. The Sabbath, "the seventh Day," 
the Seventh Thousand, is coming and will be a Day of Rest for 
God and Man, a thousand years of perfect life, for us who sur- 
vive the various trials of Sword, Plague and Famine here on 
this earth. All who will not accept this Visitation will be re- 
moved to the spirit-world as, manifestly, only those who 
wish for Christ's kingdom will enjoy it. Remember, we are go- 
ing to live like Adam for one thousand years (see Revelation 
xx, 4) only no longer fallen, but redeemed, renewed, rejuvena- 
ted, made new creatures with bodies like the Lord's Resurrec- 
tion Body (He rose again and remained on earth for forty days 
to show us this fact). Some may say, "oh, but you mentioned 
that eighty-three years had to pass yet to make up the six 
thousand, — we shall not live to see it." Ah, but "the days" are 
going to be "shortened," any time in the day is the day and the 
Lord Gor*. is going to shorten this last day (the sixth thousand) 
of Satan's reign, but He will give back to him exactly what He 
takes off it after the one thousand years of Rest are over, as 
God will be just, even to Satan (see Revelation xx, 7). Relief 
may come any time now, thank God! To understand how we 
shall be changed and restored, it is necessary to realize that 
Satan and his hosts are a malificent influence working on the 
mind and brain of man and beast, as soon as this influence is 
removed "We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twink- 
ling of an eye." A splendid prospect is in front of us! 

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soon. Think of some day in your life, when perhaps, you felt 
buoyantly well, it was lovely weather, you had plenty of money, 
beautiful food and suitable clothes, and your powers and tal- 
ents were in perfectly good working order, the only regret be- 
ing that you knew it all had to come to an end ! That is only 
a shadow of what we have in front of us, and our joys and de- 
lights will never end. The clergy have told us so many times 
that "We shall not all sleep," that they, of all people, should re- 
joice to find their prophecy is coming true, yet they of all peo- 
ple will not believe it ! In their view all the joys named in the 
Bible must happen "up in Heaven," whereas all will happen 
here on earth, They teach us to ask for God's Kingdom to 
come daily, and in Advent they do a little in the way of remind- 
ing us of the Second Coming on earth of the Lord Christ, but 
they seem to think no arrangements have to be made in regard 
to such a prodigious event, either by God or by them. It is a 
good thing someone was raised up who had sense enough to be 
able to receive all this and to be able to give us an idea how sin 
and death will be destroyed. That someone was Joanna South- 
cott. A religion which demands of us absolute trust in a Be- 
ing, to whom we give up our will, must be founded upon a pre- 
mise that this Being never has made and cannot, by any pos- 
sibility ever make a mistake. A moment's thought and any- 
one will see that the Person whose kingdom is desirable and 
whose will is to be final must be a Person who had, has now 
and will ever have all Wisdom. The Church so far has been 
content that Adam should have blamed God for giving him the 
Woman and has been content that Woman whom God said was 
made to be a Helpmate proved to be exactly the reverse. These 
two things must be made right before anything more can be 
done for Man. Jesus Christ has died for the blame cast on God,— 
that is done — finished — but Man has yet to accept the Atone- 
ment in this light, viz. : — as necessary owing to Man's dread- 
ful blundering. And he has also yet to accept Woman's help 
in order that she shall be his Helpmate. As we said before, 
God cannot make a mistake. A helpmate she was to be and a 
helpmate she will be, and Man will never receive a knowledge 
of the plan of the coming Redemption from any but a Woman's 
hand Joanna was raised up in order that God could teach a 
Woman to plead the second part (put first) of our Charter of 
Redemption — the Promise made to the Woman that Satan's 
head should be bruised. Given to a Woman, because she laid 
the blame, not on God, but on Satan, it must be pleaded by a 
Woman. Man must learn from Woman to plead that Promise 
also. Redemption and Salvation are terms in Theology which 
have not, so far, been understood to have different meanings. 



THE TRUTH ABOUT JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 7 

Salvation alludes to salvation of the soul, and up to now this 
has certainly been the point to work to, but a change is coming 
and Redemption is about to be experienced as well. Redemp- 
tion alludes to the change of body which those who accept and 
act upon these teachings will experience at the casting of Sa- 
tan from earth to hell. 

Tins is the briefest possible introduction to the study of 
God's New Revelation promised in 1 Peter i, 13, but thinking 
people will see, even in these points, that there is a Plan at the 
back of all the mysteries which is more satisfactory than any- 
thing yet preached. A spiritual warfare between God and Sa- 
tan, in which Man is unavoidably involved, has been in process 
all through the ages and is rapidly approaching its termination. 
Satan, on his side, has fought hard to retain his footing here 
and has engineered the Churches in ways which will surprise 
no one as much as themselves. His last stroke has been to per- 
suade the world that he does not exist through Christian Sci- 
ence and other cults, and throughout he has taught men to rely 
on side issues in order to keep them too engaged over non-essen- 
tials to think about the second coming, which will result in his 
removal to a less pleasant sphere. He is of course particularly 
and especially the enemy of 1 Joanna Southcott, whom he 
thought he had got rid of in 1814, when, as she died without a 
trace of disease (the medical certificate is extant to prove 
this), she may be said to have been murdered by him as Jesus 
Christ was. It was she who drew from him, during her seven 
days' Dispute with the Powers of Darkness, 2 the statement 
that he would stand or fall by Election, as a Member of Parlia- 
ment — "most votes to carry the day," as he declared that men 
love sinful pleasure better than goodness. God took him at his 
word and Joanna was ordered to start a list of signatures 
against his continued reign and in favour of the promised 
kingdom of Christ. In a short time Joanna had a large num- 
ber of signatures and, obviously, Satan had none ! Then the 
Law, which the Isles had waited for, was enacted. 3 Until a law 
was made against Satan, he knew he could not be brought to 
justice, "for where no law is there is no transgression." — (Ro- 
mans iv, 15). The law made was this — that if Satan tempted 
or persecuted one who had signed the Petition, his kingdom 
should fall. This is the law which is dearer unto many of us 
than thousands of gold or silver, for by means of it this Arch- 
fiend, this Deceiver, this Liar and Murderer will be brought 
to justice, as it is needless to say, that he, like the short-sight- 

1 "I will put enmity between thee and the woman." 

2 The dispute of the Woman with the Powers of Darkness and The Answer of the Lord. 

3 Isaiah xlii, 4. 



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ed fool he is, could think of no better diplomacy than to try to 
distress Joanna and her followers, hoping to destroy also the 
archives which record this great stroke of Divine strategy. 
Satan thought to get rid of Adam and Eve and their possible 
posterity by drawing down upon them physical death, of Jesus 
Christ by the same scheme, of Joanna in the same way. Certain- 
ly, after her death, owing to her Spiritual Child (Rev. xii) 
being "caught up" to God and to his (the Child's) throne in 
Heaven and out of reach of "the Dragon," its non-appearance 
in bodily tangible form placed Joanna's followers in a trying 
dilemma, which, however, gradually gave way to an under- 
standing of that remarkable chapter in the Revelation which 
was entirely satisfactory. The Child was "caught up," until 
of age to come as Shiloh to claim the kingdom. Having a spir- 
itual body like the Lord's Resurrection body, it could be felt 
before birth and could disappear and leave no trace. To a be- 
liever in the spiritual world about us, and to a believer in the 
Virgin Birth of Christ in the Flesh, the matter presents no dif- 
ficulties. A little child once asked, when hearing many ob- 
jections to possible miraculous developments in this epoch, 
"Mother, is God dead ?" Truly the Church seems to have rais- 
ed a question as to His active existence, or to have shut a door 
in His face. Having concluded the Revelation to St. John the 
Divine, the Church has practically said that He must speak no 
more to man by revelations or prophecies, nor must He show 
His "signs" to an unbelieving world. We admit that He show- 
ed His disfavour with man for having allowed himself to be- 
come the instrument in Satan's hands of slaying His only Son, 
by a cessation of Revelation and of Miracles or signs, but that 
was fortunately a temporary withdrawal and the world will 
now have to receive the fresh series of evidences of His Divine 
power to raise up a Spiritual Child as He raised up the Man 
Christ Jesus. The Churches will refuse to listen, but fortu- 
nately God is greater than the Churches and has already be- 
gun to "call out" from all the Churches a following which, 
though it is a "little flock," is great in Faith. The members 
of this flock who acknowledge Him alone as the Shepherd and 
the Bishop of their souls, understand, in some degree, His mag- 
nificent Plan, and obey the few very simple requirements in 
regard to the carrying of that Plan into effect, for there must 
be co-operation on the part of Man. The chief feature of this 
co-operation is the signing of the great Petition to Christ to 
"come quickly" according to His Promise, to bruise the head of 
the Deceiver of the Woman. Those who do so have a paper 
which they also sign and keep in their possession, this paper 
being called their "Seal." In virtue of having signed the Roll 



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and of having in their possession this signed paper, they are 
"sealed to the Day of Redemption." This simple act of obe- 
dience carries with it the same protection in the coming 
troubles that the Israelites received during the judgments 
which fell upon Egypt. To sign the Petition is to sign Satan's 
death warrant. The cross in the forehead which is the mark 
of what the Beast did to Christ, must now be covered by the 
Seal in the forehead (Revelation ix, 4). The Angels have re- 
ceived orders not to "hurt the earth" until the exact number 
is reached of those who are daily being added to the Church 
(to the Ecclesia, the "called out" from all churches) otherwise 
of those who have sufficient Faith to be sealed and to allow of 
their receiving the great joy of a Redeemed Body, which can 
remain on this earth to live and reign with Christ for a thous- 
and years. During this period Man will be healed, restored and 
"taught of God" as promised, and "after that the judgment," 
when, released from Satanic influences, he will be found to be 
"good." Here again we see how God who makes no mistakes 
will justify what He said of Man when He created him. What 
more can God do for us ? Hitherto it has been supposed that 
the Coming of Christ will be a sudden and catastrophic appear- 
ance in the air, followed immediately by a terrifying Assize or 
Judgment Day, and it is no wonder that children have feared 
the very name of "the Last Day" and that grown-up people 
have not been exactly keen on it. When the "Last Day" is 
understood to be the last day of Satan's rule — the very last 
thousand years of his six thousand years' reign, it is a totally 
different affair, and the writer can assure any who read this 
little sketch that those of us, including the young people, who 
accept and sign the Petition, are on the tip-toe of pleased ex- 
pectation and are like children who have been promised a 
treat — almost consumed with anxiety for "the Last Day" to 
come! 

A word on the War. — It is the final attempt made by Satan 
to secure the kingdoms of this world. He entered Napoleon 
(the i'irst Beast) one hundred years ago, as he saw what was 
corning, when "the Angels rejoiced at Joanna's birth," and has 
entered the Kaiser (the second Beast), in the hope that Eng- 
land, which is the New Jerusalem, may be overrun by hordes 
of men who place ambition and militarism above every other 
thing, and will thus crush God's great purpose for her. The 
Bishops have in in their hands, now at any moment, to change 
the scenes in England completely by sending for and investiga- 
ting THE BOX of SEALED PROPHECIES, which will deal 
with this war and will tell the Church and people exactly what 



10 THE TRUTH ABOUT JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 

to do in view of the coming phenomena. It is imperative that 
the Bishops and clergy, together with their flocks, shall "be- 
come as little children," having all to learn, as man's wisdom 
has now to give place to that of the Supreme Being. The Box 
of Sealed Prophecies is in the possession of a churchman. It 
was originally in the care of the Foley family, ancestors of the 
present Bishop of London, two of whom were clergymen thor- 
oughly steeped in Joanna's teachings. Some writings she was 
ordered to publish, some to place in the Box or Ark of the Tes- 
tament, i which is strongly corded and nailed with copper 
nails and may only be delivered up to twenty-four Bishops (the 
twenty-four Elders of the Book of Revelation) of the Church 
of England, from which church the glory will burst in conse- 
quence of the loyal support which Joanna received from three 
of the clergy of her time. There is only one Box and it cannot 
be investigated in any other way than is here described. As 
it will be sent for "in a time of great National danger," doubt- 
less we have yet many problems to face, but all should at once 
combine in bringing pressure to bear upon the Bishops to in- 
duce them to rise to their terrible responsibility. From a hu- 
man standpoint it may be said that our fate as a nation is in 
the Bishop's hands. 

(It is better to obey than to sacrifice. — 1 Samuel 15.22.) 
Miss Alice Seymour, of Devon, was called upon to publish 
the Life of Joanna Southcott in two volumes in 1907, unwit- 
tingly fulfilling the prophecy that this would be done "by the 
hand of a woman." Her labours have been unremitting ana 
daily she receives letters of enquiry and names to place upon 
the great Roll. Many are giving their lives and substance to 
this great work, and before long the greatest controversy in 
the world will be floated. In view of this, a printing press has 
been started at Ashford, in Middlesex, as it is prophesied that 
we shall hardly be able to keep pace with the demand for the 
Books. The world will rapidly be divided into two Churches, 
The Church of Philadelphia and The Church of Laodicea. The 
first will keep the "Word" of His "Patience," the word which 
Christ sowed in this woman's fine brain and responsive soul 
for twenty-two years ; like the good Husbandman, He has had 
long patience for its results. Buried like a corn of wheat it 
had to die for one hundred years before it brought forth fruit. 
The second (the church of Laodicea) will be composed of those 
who say "I am rich, I have need of nothing." "We know all 
we want to know from the early Fathers, from our own Di- 
vinity schools. Christ's 'Finished Work,' or 'Adult Baptism,' 
or 'Sacramental Teaching,' or 'Full Catholic Doctrine,' or 'Ad- 

1 Ark or chest, from the Latin area — a chest. 



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vanced Ritual/ or some mode of Church management suffice 
us, it is not we who are wretched and naked and miserable, nor 
do we want 'gold tried in the fire/ the priceless gold of the 
New Revelation, the story of how Paradise will be regained." 

Two Churches, of which one, patient, steady, certain, strong, 
will alone realize the outpouring of the Spirit (as the early 
Apostles did in shadow) and will be as "a strong people set in 
battle array, shall march every one on his ways and shall not 
break their ranks" (Joel ii). This will be the Church of the 
Living God, the one Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church, for it 
is the Church to which the apostles' eyes were ever bent, that 
Church which asks for and will realize relief from Satan's 
power, the Church which owns no Bishop and no Lord but 
Christ, Who alone can accomplish the feat, totally impossible 
to man, of reconciling all differences bringing all sects under 
His rule, binding Evil and giving us new bodies. 

We will tabulate the chief features which mark this new de- 
velopment : — 

1. There is no need for anyone to leave the church or chapel 

to which they belong. 

2. To sign the Petition binds one to nothing but to a belief 

in the imminent coming to earth of Christ or Shiloh. 
(Gen. 49.10.) Naturally all who hold this belief pu- 
rify themselves as He is pure. 

3. There is nothing to pay except for literature. The Ex- 

presses can be obtained at any public Library. The 
Two Witnesses are 3d. per month, 

4. Those who sign the Petition must : — 

(a) Guard their Seal carefully. 

(b) Possess and pay for the book Sound an Alarm, 
Is., 6d. 

(c) Possess the book A Caution to the Sealed, 6d. 
They should also : — 

(d) Endeavor to read daily some of the literature. 

(e) Pray that the Promise made to the Woman may 

be fulfilled. 

5. Information as to signing the Petition (or the Sealing) 

and in regard to literature can be obtained from Miss 
Seymour, Crapstone, Yelverton, S. Devon, also 
P. G. Smith, Carpenter's Book Store, San Diego, 
Calif., U. S. A. 
The Truth about Joanna Southcott is that she endured tor- 
tures from men and devils, in order that we of this generation 
shall possess a Word from God, without which, in the last day 
of Satan's power, we must inevitably sink in despair. That 
we should go on being born only to die is not the Divine plan 



12 THE TRUTH ABOUT JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 

for us. God's world of Spirits completed, He will now make 
Man spiritual — that is the possessor of an immortal body here 
on this earth, for thus alone can He destroy death. Manifest- 
ly if Death is to be destroyed persons must leave off dying. 
Joanna Southcott lived and laboured to teach us how all this 
will be brought about. We are given to understand that it 
is the simple and familiar manner of the Lord's communica- 
tions to this faithful and obedient servant of His, to which the 
Bishops take exception. There is no need to offer apologies to 
the truly wise men of our day who are versed in the Scriptures 
in this connection ; it is quite understandable that as we are 
frankly told that the "wisdom of the wise men shall perish"and 
as we know that the Lord always has chosen the "poor of this 
world, rich in faith," as His instruments, that, manifestly, the 
learned or highly placed will not be chosen to bring in the com- 
ing kingdom. This is so evident that it should strengthen be- 
lief in a Visitation to a simple person rather than prevent it. 
We may mention, however, that when Joanna ;grew tired of 
writing prose on the deep doctrinal matters of the 
Bible, which the Lord Himself explains to the complete 
satisfaction of all who read His Explanations of the Bible 
He frequently dropped into a kind of poetry, which highly of- 
fends the taste of the Bishops and many learned Divines. Be- 
ing utilitarian to a degree, the Lord God spoke to Joanna in 
language to which she was accustomed and which she could 
best transmit, and this little difficulty forms a test of Faith, 
which is quickly compensated in the dawning light which al- 
ways accompanies faith in this Visitation. The Lord's simplic- 
ity will be found to be able to save souls which the theology of 
the "schools" has well nigh lost. Those who seek Light care 
nothing at all what is the make or shape of the lamp which 
conveys it, and, while some are cavilling at the language of this 
Visitation, the Lord who gave it, will have "passed by" and 
will have entered in with His more simple followers to the Mar- 
riage. It. is worthy of notice that after this "the door was 
shut" and that those who knocked at the door later, turned 
out to be people with whom the Bridegroom was not acquain- 
ted. 

The following points which this Visitation arranges for, are 
as yet untouched by the Church :— 

1. The manner of the Second Coming. 

2. The explanation of Revelation xii. 

3. The Sealing of the people before the "hurting of the 

earth." 

4. The reign of Christ with His saints upon earth for the 

coming thousand years — the seventh thousand since 



THE TRUTH ABOUT JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 13 

Adam — the Sabbath for God and Man, otherwise 
called 2000 A. D. or 7000 A. M. 

5. The Binding* of Satan. 

6. The cessation of Death expressed in the words "we shall 

not all sleep." 

7. The complete redemption of the Flesh in a specified time 

which is "to be shortened." 

8. The change which is to come to men and women, walk- 

ing about on the earth, expressed by the words "this 
mortal must put on immortality," which intimates, 
to the thinker, that people walking about, will become 
immune to death and will not sleep or die, but will be 
''changed." 
Now all these things have to be arranged for and must be 
arranged for quickly, as Satan's rule will not run out its re- 
maining eighty odd years. 

We therefore challenge the Bishops to produce their ar- 
rangements in regard to all these matters. If they 
have a plan which they consider is a better plan than 
that revealed by Joanna, let them produce it. We are 
willing on our part to investigate it and carefully to weigh it 
with that revealed to Joanna,reserving to ourselves the right to 
choose which of the two seems the more practical and the more 
likely to assist us in becoming protected against the pending 
horrors which will overwhelm an unbelieving world. A new 
Sacrament — the sealing — a New Name — in fact "all things 
new" are promised us in the coming Dispensation of the Holy 
Ghost on this earth, and we have every right to demand of 
the Church to which we are attached that its rulers shall make 
arrangements whereby those who wish to be sealed to the Day 
of Redemption and to be protected against the coming judg- 
ments and plagues, can enjoy these privileges. Learned men 
such as Bishops cannot suppose that Christ's victory will be 
won "up in Heaven" where no victory is needed, or that the 
Book of the Revelation described happenings in Heaven !. What 
does Heaven want with "redemption" and "renovating" and 
"restitution of all things?" Do they not understand that Heav- 
en is coming on earth and must come before the six thousand 
years are out ? If they do not, the sooner they begin to try to 
leam this fact, the better, and the sooner they produce their 
arrangements for the reception of the Chief Shepherd, the less 
likely are they to find that they themselves are only hirelings 
and not Shepherds at all. 

One more challenge to the Bishops. While we await their 
plan the Lord's plan is going out among their flocks, and their 
flocks are feeding upon it! We append a dilemma which no 



14 THE TRUTH ABOUT JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 

Bishop in the world can get out of. The Revelation of Joanna 
is either of God or it is not of God. If of God it is true, if 
not of God, it is false. If true, let them accept it and give it 
to their starving sheep, if false, let them destroy it for-as- 
much as they are sworn to banish and drive away all false doc- 
trine. The Lord has declared that the glory of this Visitation 
shall come forth from the altar of the Church of England and 
that the silence of the Bishops gives consent to its dissemina- 
tion. They have, or can obtain, the books, let them adjudi- 
cate thereon, in fact we demand that they shall do so, in view 
of the promise made at their consecration to be "ready, with 
all faithful diligence, to banish and drive away all erroneous 
and strange doctrine contrary to God's Word/' (See Conse- 
cration of Bishops). Men cannot make solemn vows in the 
sight of a whole congregation and call upon the Lord to be 
their Helper in carrying them out, merely to repudiate all re- 
sponsibility with what they would term a dignified Silence, 
but what some of us call dereliction of duty. 

Yet another challenge to the Bishops : We are told that the 
Church is built on the foundation of Apostles and Prophets, 
that Christ received these gifts after His ascension, for men, 
i. e. for men's benefit. To ask "Where are the Apostles and 
Prophets ?" is a fair question, in days when we are sadly in 
need of some sort of help. Manifestly Bishops cannot be Apos- 
tles, else they would be able to heal the sick and to raise the 
dead as the Apostles did, 1 besides an Apostle is "sent" by 
God, he is not appointed by a Prime Minister. In regard to 
Prophets, we do not even pretend to have any, in fact, "to pro- 
phesy" in these days would be considered a sign of approaching 
nervous breakdown. If this be denied, then we can only resort 
to a kind of Habeas Corpus, and ask the Bishops "to produce 
the body" of a Prophet or the dicta of a Prophet, for thus alone 
can they prove that the Church has this gift, given for the 
benefit of men, who are beginning to want it. "My Lords, 
'produce 7 your prophet and we will 'produce' ours, who is more- 
over a woman, fulfilling the words of the Lord to Joel, 'your 
daughters shall prophesy,' and let the controversy spoken of 
in Isaiah begin ! If you have not a Prophet to produce and if 
you are not Apostles, then the Church of which you are visible 
heads has no foundations, for the gifts were given after the 
Ascension." Here is a challenge which must be replied to, 
else silence gives consent to the impeachment. As the biggest 
controversy that the world has ever known will be on the sub- 

1 "Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you ... in wonders and mighty 

deeds." — 2 Corinthians xii, 12. 

Who say they are apostles and are not."— Revelation ii, 2. 



THE TRUTH ABOUT JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 15 

jects of which this pamphlet treats, we may as well start. Va- 
rious people on watch-towers have seen the dawn and are anx- 
ious that the Bishops should come out of their crypts and see 
it too . They will not respond to loving" persuasion . Will they 
raise the gauntlet which is now thrown into their midst ? 

In conclusion we would remind the Bishops that the Lord 
has been "against the Shepherds" in times past and that there 
is no particular reason to suppose that, if the Bishops will 
neither receive His Word if it be true nor reject a supposed 
Word if it be false, He will not be "against the Shepherds" in 
our own day. Bishops should read carefully Ezekiel xxxiv. 

Those who do not wish the judgments named in Deuterono- 
my xxviii, 15, et seq. and some of the awful experiences of the 
Fall of Jerusalem to come into effect in England, and, more- 
over, desire that Sin and Death shall be destroyed, should ac- 
quaint themselves with Joanna's Visitation, become "protec- 
ted" and join in persuading the Bishops to obey the Command 
of the Lord God. 



St. Matthew's Day, 1917. 



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chain to chain, like the dawning of morning, higher and higher, brighter and 
brighter, to the perfect day; or like a flower in the bud, opening more and more 
until the full blown flower appears. 

In this manner ye must weigh the works of God, like the Husbandman's 
seed, first thrown into the Earth, and buried down without any appearance of 
the seed, till you see the blade appear. Then cometh the stalk, next the ear, 
then the blossom, then the grain is fit for harvest; just so you must mark the 
rising of all things which come from God." — /'/' Book of Visions, Pages 54, 55, 



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